Welcome to Perseus 4.0, also known as the Perseus Hopper. Read more on the Perseus version history.New to Perseus? Click here for a short tutorial.

Perseus Updates

January 9, 2017: Update on the new MA in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies at Tufts

In September 2016, we announced the creation of a new MA at Tufts University which will begin in Fall 2017. Read more ...

December 22, 2016: A New Version of Perseus and Academic Partnerships

An earlier blog entry pointed to a draft description of work on a new Perseus that we expect will appear, in some fashion, as a formal Request for Proposals from Leipzig in early January 2017. One reason to circulate this description is to get feedback. A second is to be able to explore different approaches before any formal RFP emerges. Read more ...

December 21, 2016: Draft for a Request for Proposals for a new Perseus Digital Library

We expect that Leipzig University will release a formal RFP early in January. Until and unless Leipzig University does so, there are no promises or guarantees of any kind. Our goal is to give the community a chance to comment and potential contractors an opportunity to begin thinking about what they might do. Read more ...

The navigation bar and text sidebars now include links to the Perseus Catalog.

April 30, 2013

We have released fixes to typos and other errors in various texts.

February 27,2013

We have released bug fixes to the following items: the display of Greek letters used
to identify subsections in the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary,
broken links to dictionaries in the Word Study tool, and the use of collection limits in searches
producing hits in document metadata.

April 25, 2012

We have addressed some performance issues with the site and fixed a crash in the vocabulary tool. Although some performance problems may persist, we hope that the overall experience is improved. As always, feedback is welcome. Feel free to send detailed error reports to the webmaster.